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That's a great idea, I'm going to give it a go myself, thanks!

Being looked down on by someone who voluntarily carries a state-approved surveillance appliance, I can live with that.

My side-projects are mostly mathematical, so I used to post announcements on usenet sci.math.research pointing to the page on my website. Now I don't announce at all, I figure that interested pe…

Friend, if they expect to be working 12 hour days, 365 a year that's the best thing that could happen. You have talent, you can find other work, work that's not killing your life, your rela…

That's a great analogy, but I'm not sure of the conclusion. Being a parasite on man is not good evolutionary move, since we'll pick the little bastards off. But attach to something st…

"Papiere, Bitte" from Thales, delightful.

You know Muslims, Christians and Jews have the same god? It's the prophets that they disagree on. I have no stake in this argument, I am an atheist, but please, a little respect for the beliefs …

One of my favourites: "The Infinite" by A. W. Moore (1990)

When Ronald Graham, a concerned friend and fellow mathematician, bet him [Erdos] $500 that he couldn’t stay off his drug of choice for a month, Erdos accepted and easily won the challenge. When the 30…

It depends on what you think omnipotence is; if you believe that it is constrained by consistency (God cannot create a square circle) then it could be the case that any world created would have some e…

Irix (IIRC) used to respond to the argumentless command "man" with the supremely snotty "appropo what", which made me laugh out loud the first time I saw it

... and Puffin Party being used similarly in "Four Lions"

Guy de Maupassant loathed it so much that he ate lunch there daily, since it was the only place that it didn't spoil the sklyine.

Now fixed, clearly some googlers reading this thread ...

Wild, I've never seen that before ... but if you scroll to the bottom of the page you can see the navigation widget, and on page 2 of the results, no such problems

Fabulous line: The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for …

Or there's some kind of magical properties of paprika that the rest of the world hasn't yet noticed ...

Eigenfaces are a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface

No, "carnist" is ideological rather than concerning diet, one who supports the ideology that it is morally acceptable to eat animals for food. One could be a vegetarian carnist (who does no…

I've ordered quite a few from them (novels, maths textbooks, ...) and never had an order cancelled. :-/

If you accept the axiom of choice, then you can cut up a sphere into finitely many pieces and reassemble them to a sphere with twice the volume. (The pieces are not measurable, naturally.)

... so much so that they have their own name: Faux Amis

Heh, I read that as "How does this help gitlab's competitors?" and thought "isn't that obvious?"

An X1 with Ubuntu is butter-smooth

Since smokers use health services much less than non-smokers, your view is that non-US governments should encourage smoking then?

The Reg nails this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/15/huawei_uganda_repor... …

I've seen this and it works rather well in that one can have per-language bottom level build setup (with autoconf for C, setuptools for Python, ...).

Octopodes :-)